Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, ...... I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

There is a powdery sweetness to it that makes me think of it as more feminine but It isn't any sweeter than any of the other sweet-tart smelling frags out there right now. The metallic quality is nice and butches it up a bit. I debated buying it a few days ago. Wore it home for the evening and in the end, it didn't work for me. The slight femininity was too confusing for me. I felt like I was spending too much time trying to figure it out. I'm sure it is masculine enough on other people though.

This will sound like blasphemy to some but, for me, Magnetism gives me the same fragrance emotion without the worry of it being too feminine.

Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

Without re-igniting old arguments: why the preoccupation with whether something may or may not be considered 'feminine'? If you like the fragrance, just wear it and don't worry about what a few passerbys may think. It's a personal decision, so who cares? There's way too many incredible fragrances to be limited by social constructs. As long as you're confident you can wear anything and there will be nothing to worry about.

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Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

Originally Posted by bbBD

Without re-igniting old arguments: why the preoccupation with whether something may or may not be considered 'feminine'? If you like the fragrance, just wear it and don't worry about what a few passerbys may think. It's a personal decision, so who cares? There's way too many incredible fragrances to be limited by social constructs. As long as you're confident you can wear anything and there will be nothing to worry about.

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Okay, not countering your comment but adding to the discussion:

For me, it isn't about a social construct. I do wear what I want regardless of marketed gender. However, there are times when a frag will feel, what I consider "too feminine" for me to wear. Some may say they prefer to think of things as too soft, or too floral, or too powdery, but all these apply to notes in all frags. IMHO there are times when the perfect storm of these qualities come together and create something that is best described by the word "feminine". It is not necessarily a bad thing, it simply doesn't suit the tastes of some.

Though, you are probably right in thinking that most are considering "too feminine to wear" to mean something people will laugh at you for. Whether or not someone is comfortable with that concept is their own challenge. I prefer my frags to complement me and not confuse people. If I want to smell like L'Aire Du Temps, I'll come home to do it, only because i think it would be incongruous to do it in public.

Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

To each their own, and I understand that you mean 'feminine' as shorthand for characteristics of a fragrance (though I would point out that this is too broad a category as 'feminine' can mean dozens of things, not just soft and powdery). As a related matter, I would just forward the notion to the 'general public' that as long as you enjoy the fragrance, there is never an incongruity wearing whatever you want in public. I'm not saying there aren't situation-inappropriate fragrances, but that's true irrespective of gender.

Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

I didn't perceive it as very feminine, but several friends did. It was sold the next day.

As much as I understand the 'f*ck it, I will wear what I want' mentality some preach here, I personally wear fragrance to smell good and represent how I feel about myself. When others perceived it as feminine, that was not what I was going for. Win some, lose some. My friends don't comment much about what I wear, so when they commented that it was feminine, that spoke volumes to me. Again, I think it smells unisex, but I don't live in a vacuum.

Re: wearing Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste

I'm 2 hours into my first wearing also, ChuckW, and I have to agree, I don't find it to be what I consider feminine in the least. It might not matter, however. As I came downstairs from getting dressed this morning, my wife asked what I was wearing, she said she couldn't smell anything. I had applied what I thought was a heavy application (for me), 4 sprays. She said she liked what I had worn yesterday (Ambre Soie) much better, that it had better sillage. I reapplied, two additional sprays, a little over an hour ago, and again, I don't think anybody would notice that I am wearing anything. I like this a lot, but hourly reapplication is not something I even want to consider. Is your experience similar?